As
Internet is a network of Computers, Society isa network
of Human Beings. Coalescing the two createsthe architecture
for a seamlessly networked society.
In CHO
i
CE,
ISS volunteers would share networked handheldcommunity
computers in villages and would route informationand information-enabled
services of local relevance.In the process, they would
emerge as technology resourcepersons and community leaders
in a society wheretraditionally girls have been marginalised.
Leadershipand empowerment will be the core incentive for
them.Since maximising monetary returns would not be the
motivation, they would ensure seamless access to information
for empowerment the 'last person' in society.
The costs involved in taking technology seamlessly
to every
person on individual basis in a State where35% are still
illiterate and 40% live below the povertyline are daunting.
Instead, in CHOi
CE,
the technological network would reach in a portablefashion
to the village and the human network wouldprovide information
access on a shared communitybasis. This would bridge the
last lap of 'last personconnectivity' in a cost-effective
manner.
A local language solution providing integration of
legacy
data with platform independent end-to-endscaleable local
language capability has been identifiedwith the assistance
of the National Centre for SoftwareTechnology .This solves
the problem of diversityof incompatible local language
solutions. The solution,already in the beta testing stage,
will be readyfor the forthcoming academic session beginning
July.